These missiles can be launched either from underground control centers or by an airborne launch control center installed in KC-135 aircraft.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui l'obtint —A financier was wanted, a dancing-master got the post. Beaumarchais.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

2. Necessitas nunc cogit aliquando noxia quaerere remedia, et ex simplicibus compositas facere, tum ad saporem, odorem, palati gratiam, ad correctionem simplicium, tum ad futuros usus, conservationem, &c. 4179 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

On one of these afternoons four or five unmilked cows chanced to stand apart from the general herd, behind the corner of a hedge, among them being Dumpling and Old Pretty, who loved Tess's hands above those of any other maid.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

His remains which so eminently deserved rites of honourable sepulture, were from unavoidable circumstances consigned to earth by the hands
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Natives will willingly state customs and rules, and they will also accurately and with interest follow up concrete cases.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

while Helen was to be found une comfortable chambre a l’hotel.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The fact that faith, under certain circumstances, may work for blessedness, but that this blessedness produced by an idée fixe by no means makes the idea itself true, and the fact that faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before: all this is made sufficiently clear by a walk through a lunatic asylum .
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But nevertheless, the few reminiscences of this chapter of Bering's explorations which our present geography has preserved are obtained principally from Cook's map; for the first successors of this great navigator, Dixon, 1785, La Pérouse, 1786, Malespina, 1791, and Vancouver, 1792, through whose efforts the northwest coast was scientifically charted, maintained, with a few unimportant changes, Cook's views on this point.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

But,” pursued Danglars with one of his sinister smiles, “an order for unlimited credit calls for something like caution on the part of the banker to whom that order is given.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Architecture, Dress, and Diet of the Chinese , 724-781 Notions entertained by foreigners upon Chinese customs, 724 ; Architecture of the Chinese, 726 ; Building materials and private houses, 728 ; Their public and ornamental structures, 730 ; Arrangement of country houses and gardens, 731 ; Chinese cities: shops and streets, 736 ; Temples, club-houses, and taverns, 739 ; Street scenes in Canton and Peking, 740 ; Pagodas, their origin and construction, 744 ; Modes of travelling, 747 ; Various kinds of boats, 749 ; Living on the water in China, 750 ; Chop-boats and junks, 752 ; Bridges, ornamental and practical, 754 ; Honorary Portals, or Pai-lau , 757 ; Construction of forts and batteries, 758 ; Permanence of fashion in Chinese dress, 759 ; Arrangement of hair, the Queue, 761 ; Imperial and official costumes, 763 ; Dress of Chinese women, 764 ; Compressed feet: origin and results of the fashion, 766 ; Toilet practices of men and women, 770 ; Food of the Chinese, mostly vegetable, 772 ; Kinds and preparation of their meats, 776 ; Method of hatching and rearing ducks’ eggs, 778 ; Enormous consumption of fish, 779 ; The art of cooking in China, 781 .
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

§ 6 London will be the first Utopian city centre we shall see.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Lactose at times causes an evolution of gas as do fats under certain circumstances.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

Il me fallait un Condillac coûte que coûte.
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

It was instruction that could not be disobeyed, for the Freshmen, under certain circumstances, were by the unwritten, but none the less stringent rules of the school, [Pg 191] bound to do certain things commanded by their class superiors.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis

The best of the Osmanli nation, the Anatolian peasantry, has yet to make its physical and moral qualities felt under civilized conditions.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

Lorelei realized before long that this very jocundity of his, since it fed upon constant change and excitement, constituted the gravest menace to their happiness.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

In the following spring the English began the erection of a stockade here, which, on the twenty-fourth of April, was surrendered to the French under Captain Contrecoeur Who at once proceeded to the erection of Fort Du Quesne.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various